Is It Possible To Tweet An Image With A Link? Here is the Test

When I've clicked on images in Tweets, Twitter only shows an enlarged image.  It doesn't then link to the URL that the tweet contains; that link is only in the text of the tweet.

What I've recently found is a possible solution to that, but I'm not really sure if it is correct.  I'll be testing that information here on this page.  It requires me to access the header area, which I'm not sure if that will work since I'm using a template on this blog.

I didn't place the information in the header since I found what seems like alternative or contradictory information.  I placed the html in the body.  Unlikely to have the results I'm seeking, but here goes anyway.

It didn't work when the meta information was in the body of the html, and it didn't work when all of the meta info was in the header either.  It did work when only the first line of the meta data was in the header.  So this is working according to the Card Validation provided by Twitter.

I'll test tweet this page and see if this image appears in the tweet now.

Here's the image I'll be attempting to use as a link back to this blog post.

Time to test it using Twitter's "card" feature.

I Saw the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus

I Saw the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus and it was nice.  The display is large on the phone with it wrap around the edge a little.  Ok, but they already had the Note Edge back in 2014, and of course, LG released one a year later in 2015.


galaxy note edge at androidcentral

lg smartphone curved edges at CNET

So what more is Samsung brining with the S8?  It's a Samsung, It's a Galaxy, it's new, it's likely more powerful than anything released in the past 3 years, it's definitely slick and well done, but how much more?  I don't know and in the short video I made of my first impression, it's hard to tell.  Here's the video.

You definitely don't want to drop the phone, (like I immediately did, but that's because of the massive clamp on it!) and we can assume that there will never be a case made for it?  :-)  After all why cover up the "edge" if that's the main feature of the phone....

LINK: Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus - quick little peek at the display

How do you really get a good idea of a phone without using it and putting it on your plan, etc?  It's always a risk but the latest new phones in 2017 are all going to be pretty slick and advanced beyond what we used to be blown away by.

Do I want one? Yes, of course.

Boss SE-50 Stereo Effects Processor Display Issue Requires Battery Replacement

I wanted to use my old Boss "Pro" Stereo Effects Processor that I had sitting around for a long time, many years.  The display had random garbage characters on the user settings area, the first 100 patches.  I had this issue once, years earlier and found that there is an internal watch style battery in the unit that is in a battery holder, luckily, rather than soldered on the board.

The board has to come out, however, since the battery is on the other side, the inside, once the cover is removed from the unit.  I did it once, but it was so long ago I don't even remember doing it.  I made a video of it and posted it on my  YouTube channel.

Boss SE-50 Battery Replacement

I only had a really cheap Chinese battery handy to use in it, but it did work, and if I have to replace it again, it's not that much of a pain to do.  The battery is a common CR2032, I've seen them priced any where from 5 for $1.99, like this one, to something like $3.99, not sure why the wide range in pricing on this item, I hope it has something to do with the quality, but somehow I doubt it.

I didn't really like this unit after I got it, years ago, but now I like it more since back then, I was trying to use it more for a guitar multi-effects unit rather than a signal multi-effects unit for line level signals and processing voice and sending other signals like keyboards thru it.  It's definitely better for voice and keys.

At first, all I was looking for was a gate to control the noise on my mic while recording video, but there's a lot of fun stuff on there.  I used the pitch shift for fun on one of the videos that sounded like a disguised voice, which I thought was a cool effect.

It's now in my signal chain going to my audio interface input after the mic pre and compressor.

It has a lot of different patches, most of them are available thru software effects but those can also take up a lot of processing power so it's actually nice to have this outboard gear available to play with a whole lot faster than searching for and setting and resetting software parameters.  With this, just dial some in really fast and adjust fast and save fast to the 100 available user memory settings, which are now able to be saved with the fresh battery.